International Workshop "Never at Rest: A Lifetime Inquiry of QGP"

The International Workshop "Never at Rest: A Lifetime Inquiry of QGP" will take place on February 9 - 12, 2025, at the Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany.
This special event is dedicated to celebrating the 70th  birthday of Prof. Johanna Stachel.

The workshop starts on Monday morning, February 10, and finishes on Wednesday, February 12 (after lunch). Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, February 9. 

Prof. Johanna Stachel is a prominent German physicist known for her work in experimental nuclear physics. She has made significant contributions to the understanding of the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that is believed to have existed just after the Big Bang. 

Prof. Stachel earned her doctoral degree  at the University of Mainz in 1982,  focusing on nuclear structure with experiments performed at GSI Darmstadt. After that she joined  Stony Brook University with a Feodor Lynen fellowship, working first at sub-threshold pion production in medium energy nuclear collisons before joining, in 1985, the newly started relativistic nuclear collision program at the Brookhaven AGS accelerator as one of the founding members. At the same time she joined the physics faculty at Stony Brook, moving quickly through the ranks to become full professor in 1994. Her work at Stony Brook, on high energy nuclear collisions, yielded transformational results which provided the basis for a whole new field of research on the Quark-Gluon Plasma. In 1996 she became a professor at the University of Heidelberg. Throughout her career, she has been deeply involved in major experimental collaborations at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. One of her most notable roles has been in the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) project at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where she has played a key part in studying the quark-gluon plasma. Johanna Stachel is also known for her significant contributions to the phenomenology of high energy nuclear collisions, and for detector development and implementation, most recently  of the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) as part of the ALICE  experiment at CERN. 

In addition to her research, Johanna Stachel has served as the president of the German Physical Society (DPG) from 2012 to 2014, where she was the first woman to hold this prestigious position. Her contributions to the field have been widely recognized, most recently through the 'Lise Meitner' prize of the European Physical Society and the 'Stern-Gerlach' medal of the German Physical Society. She is clearly respected as internationally renowned and influential figure in the world of physics.

Participation is exclusively by invitation.

For participation registration is strictly required.